[Runequest] [OT] Ancient Tattoos

[Lance Dyas]

Wayne Shaw wrote:
>> It's an odd system - basically it's like a computer game mechanic, you have
>> to go out adventuring, kill a monster, take its "rune item", and integrate
>> or attune it.
>>     
>
> The somewhat RQ-like game Swordbearer had something like this with 
> its "spirit magic" system; to cast spirit magic you needed "spirit 
> nodes" which were extracted from other living things.
>
>   
 Not just living things... an idealic glen or similar "perfect place"
would have nodes. Ars Magica has something similar....  abstracting
out magic components is one of the ideas behind it additionally there
are lots of myths about eating an enemies heart to gain his power etc.